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The project Protect Democracy is suing the state of South Carolina because its insecure, unreliable voting systems are effectively denying people the right to vote. The project has filed a 45-page lawsuit pointing out the inherent lack of security and inauditability of these systems and concludes that "by failing to provide S.C. voters with a system that can record their votes reliably," South Carolinians have been deprived of their constitutional right to vote. Late last year, Def Con 25's Voting Village reported on the ongoing, egregious, and fraudulent state of electronic voting in the US, a situation which has been getting steadily worse since at least 2000. The elephant in the room is that these machines are built from the ground up on Microsoft products, which is protected with a cult-like vigor standing in the way of rolling back to the only known secure method, hand counted paper ballots.
Bruce Schneier is an advisor to Protect Democracy
Earlier on SN:
Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States (2018)
Want to Hack a Voting Machine? Hack the Voting Machine Vendor First (2018)
Georgia Election Server Wiped after Lawsuit Filed (2017)
It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines (2017)
Russian Hackers [sic] Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data (2017)
5 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. (2016)
FBI Says Foreign Hackers Penetrated State Election Systems (2016)
and so on ...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by archfeld on Sunday July 22 2018, @06:33AM (1 child)
They only included USB at the request of some very LAZY and CHEAP banks that wanted quick access at the expense of ease of use. Admittedly it has been a while since I worked there but I was in a former life a tech at the R&D DC of a large financial institution and we had ATMS locked down VERY securely. Sadly the security required too much onsite intervention and the brainless idiots in management dreamed up an idea of remote access and centralized management that would cut the number of employees required to maintain the network of ATM's. Thus they introduced insecure network protocols and ports such as USB to allow for quick and dirty access, which results in the state of the ATM's today.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @05:12PM
So you're saying they make ATMs with holes you can drive mining trucks through because that is really what the purchasers want?